I'd say that a sovereign cloud is an oxymoron; anything that is "other people's computers" in any sense, is not sovereign. The trade war shows that "sovereign"

I'd say that a sovereign cloud is an oxymoron; anything that is "other people's computers" in any sense, is not sovereign. The trade war shows that "sovereign" computing is a spectrum, and to be fully sovereign you need to be able to create everything yourself, from end user software, through services, operating systems, bootloaders, firmware, programming languages, datacentres, network, board layouts, processor designs, board assembly, processor fabs, processing rare earth minerals, mining ore etc, plus everything you need to do that.